I was going to make it like a modern apartments/casino/shopping mall inside with an oasis/food court in the center but seeing how much effort it took just to build the damn thing, I'm completely turned off by the prospect of doing that.

I really need to place a layer of sandstone on the ground so Enderman stop tearing it up but...it's no less than 53,084 blocks. Figure 1 second per block placement, that takes 14 3/4 hours to do. To add all the crap I want to build...we're talking a huge expenditure of time just because of the size of it.

Then maybe some time this week I'll hop in and start building.
Are there territories and such or build wherever there is room?

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Wherever there is room, but if you want to build within city/castle walls please do realise that not all settlements are free-build areas. IIRC, the town section of Kard and Cape Coon were declared free-build zones but I don't know whether this is true for Canada. The snow area in the northern part of the map currently holds the main settlement of Winterfell (no free-building area, sorry); and the two villages of Hutton and Long Bridge's End. If you keep distance to the mentioned three settlements you may build freely in the North. Let me know if you want advice on the starting area for your settlement/house/whetever; I know the area pretty well.

Looking at that pyramid all I can think if is that you guys would have been great slave labor 5000 years ago.

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Considering the effort required just to level the base, I'm pretty sure Ford would've made a great slave

Though I believe holding down the mouse button is a little less intense than hauling giant stones around... I wouldn't have survived the first day...

Haven't played in a while, mostly due to bandwidth limitations at my current location - MC is pretty bandwidth intensive and I only have a 2 GiB cap to work with (yay for third world countries). Once I've made other arrangements in a few weeks I'd love to expand my home above ground...